Real-time ocean intelligence for anglers & scientists
Without local boaters on the water, the ocean’s biggest data gaps stay hidden. MOLINN equips your vessel to build live, sub-surface heatmaps: bypassing inaccurate coastal satellite estimates to help you spot thermal fronts and target fish faster. In return, your runs directly power the marine research protecting our waters for generations to come.
Anglers head out as normal. The MOLINN app runs quietly in the background, logging GPS position, sea surface temperature, and environmental conditions as you move across the bay.
Your vessel's live data streams in real time, layered with Copernicus Marine Service satellite data, resulting in a more accurate interactive heatmap:
Anonymized environmental data flows into a centralized database, significantly boosting the volume and frequency of oceanographic records in our coastal areas.
A real-time map of your local bay updated continuously as vessels report in. See SST gradients, current boundaries, and upwelling events as they develop, information that changes where fish are.
Copernicus satellite SST data is blended with in-situ vessel readings to produce a map with both broad coverage and high local resolution: the best of both data sources.
No behaviour change required. App will open itself in the background, just go fishing. MOLINN logs conditions automatically. No forms, no manual entry, no disruption to your day on the water.
Every trip contributes to a long-term ecological dataset. Fishing vessels become the most distributed, cost-effective oceanographic monitoring network the bay has ever had.
MOLINN was built out of a simple observation: recreational anglers cover more of our coastal areas, more frequently, than any research vessel ever could. That's an untapped scientific resource.
We're a marine technology startup based in the Eastern Cape, building the bridge between the fishing community and the oceanographic science that depends on understanding this bay. Your catch data stays yours. Your environmental data helps everyone.
Currently in prototype development. We're looking for skippers, ski boat anglers, and charter operators in the St Francis Bay and Algoa Bay area who want to be part of building something that gives back to the water they fish.
We are recruiting prototype testers in St Francis Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Algoa Bay and surrounds: anglers, skippers, and charter operators. Free access in exchange for honest feedback and a few trips with the app running.
Questions about the prototype, the science behind MOLINN, or partnership opportunities? We'd love to hear from you.
Ocean Intelligence